The Comedy of Errors is a classic Shakespearean comedy about two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth. The play follows the misadventures of the two sets of twins as they cross paths in the same city, unaware of their true identities. The play is full of mistaken identities
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide. In the centuries following its premiere, the play's title has entered the popular English lexicon as an idiom for "an event or series of events made ridiculous by the number of errors that were made throughout".